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The Coalition would immediately replace the "closed-shop, anti-competitive" selection of default funds under modern awards with an "open, transparent and competitive proc...
Financial planning
The Coalition would immediately replace the "closed-shop, anti-competitive" selection of default funds under modern awards with an "open, transparent and competitive proc...
Financial planning
Scaled financial advice is a promising offering receiving a big push from the Government and industry regulators. However, lingering uncertainties are preventing the serv...
Policy & Regulation
The Federal Opposition claims the FOFA bills have never been subject to appropriate best-practice measures....
Policy & Regulation
The finance industry has found itself in a similar situation to the financial planning industry around the Government's handling of new legislation....
Superannuation
David Court brings us up to date with the excess contributions tax and outlines some of the potential problems related to the Government's recent changes to the ECT....
Superannuation
Cavendish Superannuation says recent changes mean it is time for SMSF trustees to review their pension options....
Superannuation
Rather than embracing Australian Greens policy, the Government has been urged to focus on superannuation policy anomalies....
Superannuation
The Federal Government needs to consider what impact any changes to Australia's superannuation regime will have on various sectors of the community, according to Institut...
Editorial
The recent announcement by Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan that he had convened a Superannuation Roundtable seems to thoroughly misunderstand the consequences that go with c...
Editorial
Although the process involving the upcoming FOFA reforms commenced a few years ago, the reforms package still looks like an unsolved jigsaw puzzle, writes Pam Roberts....
Policy & Regulation
The Coalition remains hopeful the PJC can deliver a bipartisan report on the FOFA bills, but stands ready to issue a dissenting report and to pursue amendments, particula...
Financial planning
To escape the "sovereign debt trap", highly indebted nations must implement financial repression policies to erode the real value of their national debt, says Standard Li...
Financial planning
To escape the "sovereign debt trap", highly indebted nations must implement financial repression policies to erode the real value of their national debt, says Standard Li...
Editorial
It became apparent during the Parliamentary Joint Committee hearings held to review the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) bills that the legislation requires significant ...
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...